boot banner project

[Toxa]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:17:30PM -0500, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> I think you're mistaking convenience for bloat...someone mentioned  
> the old redhat boot process earlier, and I can agree with them, that  
> that was, convenient, easy to read, and in no way seemed to add any  
> bloat to the ASCII output.
> 
> Now, a pretty image, a la FreeSBIE, _is_ bloat, but I don't think  
> that's what is being mentioned or suggested here.
> 
> Toxa, you make Window Managers, and a lot of GUI apps that make  
> things like, using MacOS X sound terribly bloated, don't discount  
> aesthetics right off the bat, they're not always "evil bloat"
> 

I'm afraid of tendency. A little this, a little that, and at the end
of it we'll get pretty nifty OS full of "cool but really unnecessary" features :-)